This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of History, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
"Death can't touch them now": AIDS response and memorialization in Louisville, Kentucky, 1982-1992., Olivia A. Beutel
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Radical renewal, the sisters of Loretto, Nouvelle Theologie, and the second vatican council., Carol Bolton Easterly
Dixieland crusaders: Mass media, the Ku Klux Klan, and the optics of populism, 1970-1979., Olivia E. Raymond
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
The tournament and chivalry as represented by Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, and Geoffrey Chaucer., Hailey Michelle Brangers
"A trained and trustful soul" : life and literature of a black Louisville artist in minstrel America., Emma Christine Bryan
"Model and patriarch" of southern settlements : neighborhood house in Louisville, Kentucky, 1896-1939., Kalie Ann Gipson
A new fantasy of crusade : Sarras in the vulgate cycle., Christopher Michael Herde
Progressive city in the progressive era : child welfare reform in Louisville Kentucky., Mary K. Marlatt
Curating an American immigrant identity : German and Latin American heritage weekends as placemaking in Louisville, Kentucky, 1974-1980., Sarah Elizabeth McCoy
“I have prayed and prayed: I have labored and labored”: ethnic catholicism in Daviess country Kentucky, 1850-1900., Edward A. Wilson III
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Conquerors or cowards: the role of the Kentucky mounted militia in the Indian wars from 1768 to 1841., Joel Anderson
Political activism and resistance in Irish America : the clan na gael 1912-1916., Sara Bethany Bornemann
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
The mark of the Devil : medical proof in witchcraft trials., Sarah Dunn
Since the time of Eve : La Leche League and communities of mothers throughout history., Joanna Paxton Federico
James Franklin Bell : hard war in the Philippines., Daniel Michael
Sonic intolerance : aural yellowface during the golden age of American radio., Greyson Perry Neff
Southern veils : the sisters of Loretto in early national Kentucky., Hannah O'Daniel
The cultural creation of Fulvia Flacca Bambula., Erin Leigh Wotring
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
An environmental history of the Rio Grande in the Panama Canal zone, 1521- 1950., Francisco Javier Bonilla
A nativist upsurge : Kentucky's Know Nothing Party of the 1850s., Eric B. Brumfield
The colored librarian : Thomas F. Blue and the Louisville Free Public Library's Colored Department, 1905-1935., Jacob Carlton Burress
"Puritan hypocrisy" and "conservative Catholicity" : how Roman Catholic clergy in the border states interpreted the U.S. Civil War., Carl C. Creason
"A part of, rather than apart from" : Louisville's black arts scene in the mid-twentieth century., Wesley Sawyer Cunningham
Kentucky's first statesman : George Nicholas and the founding of the commonwealth., Benjamin Michael Gies
A collection of inventions : radio, reeducation, and the postwar German public sphere., James Rooney
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Sisters of the Mississippi struggle : examining the contributions by women to the fight for voting equality in Mississippi in the early 1960s., Morgan Ackerman, 1980-
Canterbury and the crown : how the personal relationships between Tudor monarchs and their Archbishop of Canterbury affected the Church in England., Mary Alexandra Covington
More than "moon gold and marbles" : rationalization, reform, and the transformation of the American circus, 1900-1940., Matt Holdzkom 1981-
The Czech-Egyptian arms deal of 1955 : a turning point in Middle Eastern Cold War history., Thomas Michael Shaughnessy Skaggs
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
The Roman army in fourth-century CE Egypt., Jon Bruce Manley 1988-
Historic preservation in Quito, Ecuador : tangible and intangible heritage., Meredith Alison Maple
The grey eagle of Glen Lily : Simon Bolivar Buckner's place in the lost cause, reunion, and politics of the late nineteenth century., Whitney K. Todd 1989-
Legislation and its effects on race relations in southeastern Indiana, 1785-1860., D. W. Varble
The Riom trial : Marshal Petain's attack on the Third Republic., James Estel Williams 1985-
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Discovering domestic cemeteries : history, preservation, and education., Savannah Leigh Darr 1985-
Interactivity in Louisville museums., Robert Stephen Goforth 1983-
Southern honor, Confederate warfare : southern antebellum cultural values in Confederate military operations, 1861-1865., Matthew D. Goldberg
Badges of slavery : the struggle between civil rights and federalism during reconstruction., Vanessa Hahn Lierley 1981-
The Supreme Court, the establishment clause, and the First Amendment., William Lorigan 1976-
Pioneers, proclamations, and patents : a narrative of the conquest, division, settlement, and transformation of Kentucky., Brandon Michael Robison 1986-
A progressive mind : Louis D. Brandeis and the origins of free speech., Elizabeth Diane Todd
Unconventional warfare in the Ottoman Empire : Turkish counterinsurgency and their Western inspiration., Nicholas A. Warndorf 1987-
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Groping in the dark : an early history of WHAS radio., William A. Cummings 1982-
Bawdy badges and the Black Death : late medieval apotropaic devices against the spread of the plague., Lena Mackenzie Gimbel 1976-
To the mountaintop and back again : the rise and fall of General George B. McClellan., Carl Pagles 1977-
"The greatest evil that can befall us" : Unionism in antebellum era Kentucky, 1849-1861., Curtis Lushawn Parmley 1975-
The Ilkhanid Mongols, the Christian Armenians, and the Islamic Mamluks : a study of their relations, 1220-1335., Lauren Prezbindowski
Albert Taylor Bledsoe : Whig intellectual and proslavery theorist., Lori Jean Wilson 1974-
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Quidam homo est asinus : the originality and influence of Peter Abelard upon Medieval thought., Timothy Ernst 1982-
Attaining the church universal : imagination, popular theology, and ecumenism in the ministry of S. Parkes Cadman, 1920-1936., James C. Hall 1986-
For Union, for Confederacy, for slavery : motivation for enlisting & serving among Kentucky's Civil War soldiers., James F. Osborne 1987-
Constructing British identity : Tobias Smollett and his Travels through France and Italy, Michael Anthony Skaggs 1987-
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Assurance and frustration : from Ireland and the Netherlands to Jamestown., Keith A. Donahoe
Pursuing pleasure, attaining oblivion : the roles and uses of intoxicants at the Mughal court., Stephanie Honchell 1984-
The laws will fall silent : Ex Parte Quirin, a troubling precedent for military commissions., Brad P. Luebbert 1968-
Small farmers, slavery, and the political economy of Kentucky's Green River, 1790-1850., Christopher P. Petzold 1982-
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
"I had always been opposed to colonialism" : President Harry S. Truman and the end of European colonialism., Timothy J. Pifer 1957-
Sin city Kentucky : Newport, Kentucky's vice heritage and its legal extinction, 1920-1991., Michael L. Williams 1948-
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Making birth control acceptable : the development of the twentieth century birth control movement., Elizabeth Caskey 1983-
"The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is" : Unionism and emancipation in Civil War era Kentucky., Jacob F. Lee 1982-
Viewed through new lenses : a comparative study of young girls growing up in Madison, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky, during World War II., Michella M. Marino 1982-
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Men, cohesion, and battle : the Inniskilling Regiment at Waterloo., Mark Richard Bois
The introduction of Christianity into Scandinavia, Iceland, and Finland., Tracy Marie Legel 1974-
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The plan for Reformation : Henry VIII and the dissolution of the English monasteries., Angela Loretta Ash 1979-
Casualty of War : the governorship of Beriah Magoffin, 1859-1862., Robert William Goebel 1981-
Hanging the moonbow : Tom Wallace and the Cumberland Falls fight, 1926-1931., Noah Garland Huffman 1981-
"Jack of all trades" : the metamorphosis of armored cavalry in Vietnam., Robert Manson Peters 1966-
At work in the fields : an essay into the work lives of nineteenth century English agricultural wage labouring and African American slave and freed women., Anne Reeves 1948-
The Marian and Elizabethan persecutions : how England was prepared for persecution and defended from martyrdom., Mitchell Scott
Child of the North : Louisville's transition to a southern city, 1879-1885., Robert Bruce Symon Jr., 1962-
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
A model racing plant : founding and economic history of Keeneland racetrack., Scott A. Carmony 1967-
The jugular vein of empire : the imperial attachment to the Suez Canal from 1875 to 1956., Matthew Church
Breakdown from within : Virginia railroads during the Civil War era., Larry Edward Johnson 1956-
Louise C. Morel, The Louisville Women's City Club, and municipal housekeeping in Louisville, 1917-1935., Gail Elizabeth Chooljian Nall
The parents of progressive improvement : railroads and public policy in Kentucky, 1829-1900., David Matthew Wilkins
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
James Wilson : progressive constitutionalist., Bradley Jay Caffee 1972-
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
The Ottoman Navy 1900-1918 : a study of the material personnel and professional development of the Ottoman Navy from 1900 through the Italian, Balkan, and first World Wars., Karl Wilhelm Augustus Darr
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Called to serve : American nurses go to war, 1914-1918., Katherine Burger Johnson
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Pope Clement VI : attempts to resurrect the papal monarchy., Henry Miles Spalding 1961-
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
John F. Kennedy, Ghana and the Volta River project : a study in American foreign policy towards neutralist Africa., Kurt X. Metzmeier 1959-
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Charles Wilkins Short : Kentucky botanist and physician, 1794-1863., Deborah Susan Skaggs 1949-
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
The Irish in Louisville., Stanley Ousley Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
The pre-court career of John Marshall Harlan., Thomas L. Owen
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Kentucky's 1935 gubernatorial election., Olivia M. Frederick
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
The Board of Internal Improvement of Kentucky, 1835-1850., Joe F. Decker
Theses/Dissertations from 1949
The handling of injury cases under the Workmen's Compensation Act of Kentucky., William E. Biggs
World War I and American public opinion, 1914-1917., Walter Edmund Hicks
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
The history of the government of the city of Louisville., Attia Martha Bowmer
Mediation, conciliation and arbitration of labor disputes on the federal, state, and local level., Benjamin F. Browning
The history of architecture in San Antonio., Jean Jones Shelton 1915-2001
Relations of the Emperor Alexius with the first crusaders., Marilyn Tyler Waggoner
Theses/Dissertations from 1947
Trotsky and the Moscow treason trials., Albert L. Boiter
Theses/Dissertations from 1946
Henry Watterson and the tariff, 1876-1897., Harold Arthur Seekamp
Raid to the north., William Woodrow Slider
Origins of secondary education with special reference to Fort Wayne, Indiana., William Arnold Willer
Theses/Dissertations from 1945
Cassius M. Clay's True American., Albert D. Kirwan
